So I've been thinking about superhero movies and what does and doesn't work in them and the fact that my favorite hero, the Flash, is pretty fucked when it comes to thinking up a plot that would work for a cinema audience. Most successful comic book films require the audience to have some knowledge of the subject matter before hand. Superman leaps ( Read more... )

Fun fact: No matter how much pain I am in due to a really bad infection that is apparently attacking my kidneys and I'm not even sure how that's possible, comics with Captain Cold righteously killing bitches will always cheer me up. Thank you Geoff Johns, for uniting Silver Age shenanigans and graphic violence in delicious ways ( Read more... )

A few bloggers have been doing lists of 50 Things They Love About Comics. I don't have enough scans ready, so think of this as a prelude. The next edition will have at least 500% more Doop.

( Ten awesome pages from comics. )

Geoff Johns writing fanboy letters into DC is currently cracking me up. Thank you message boards, for scanning and sharing this hilarity with us all. I love that he was plotting out the Kon has two daddies thing before he was even hired. I don't like all his books, but I like Johns for his eternal fanish optimism as demonstrated in this interview. ( Read more... )

I've pretty much been doing nothing but reading a bunch of comics for the past week. Because comics are that medium that will punch you in the gut and suck you in by virtual of their sheer insanity. Talking gorillas, evil space starfish, people in bright costumes, it's really all anyone needs in any genre ever. Anyone who objects to this is stupid ( Read more... )

Stupid comic book movies being good, they make me want to read about superheroes again. Today I reread Johns' run on The Flash and might have sighed dreamily over Captain Cold. Oh Johns, you're kind of a bastard but I will forgive you as long as you continue to be totally gay for a supervillain who runs around in an eskimo outfit freezing things ( Read more... )